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ladyloveswolves7) wrote2019-08-26 02:23 pm
ladyloveswolves7) wrote2019-08-26 02:23 pm
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Reading.
Spending my days, in between bouts of insanity over animals, putting covers to my books imported from Goodreads to LibraryThing. I feel like Scrooge McDuck swimming in his vault of gold, I am fingering my way through my vault of books.
I was just musing on my library and the books I read and realized no-one can judge me based on what I read because the range is vast. The only judgement anyone can make about me and books is...I read to the detriment of everything and everyone in my life and spend too much money on books. On every list of 100 Must Read Books...I generally have read at least 75-85 (not matter the type of list (scifi, classics, popular, encyclopedias, cartoons, biographies, autobiographies, dog care, cat care, famous writers oeuvre, books of quotations, books of jokes, books of famous people, books of photographs, mysteries and cosies and poetry. Barbara Cartland and Harlequin Romances had their place in my life at one time and so did Women's Weekly). One very important point is....I do not care what anyone else thinks...books are my life, the more the merrier. Nobody else reads enough to impress me. I have read Tolkien, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the Russians. Kafka bored me, I could not finish Proust (though I got half way through the massive trilogy). I have read my share of literary fiction and genre fiction..I have no prejudices. I am not fussy about quality of writing just as I can eat steak today and eat weiners tomorrow..everything is grist for the mill.
On the other hand, if there were a computer programme that you could enter your entire read library into that would run an algorithm and spit out a judgement of who, what etc. about you based on what you read...I would like that. Humans, nope, they are too full of their own inadequacies and prejudices and jealousies and ignorance. You cannot really trust the opinions of other people. What they think of any given politician can be the result..today..of something they read or saw on television or in the news. So few people actually read enough to be entitled to an opinion of other people's reading matter.
As for my mood at the moment, I am relieved. My animals have made me frantic with worry and today I got a break and I am coming up from the pits or down from my flights of dungeon building in the sky.
I was just musing on my library and the books I read and realized no-one can judge me based on what I read because the range is vast. The only judgement anyone can make about me and books is...I read to the detriment of everything and everyone in my life and spend too much money on books. On every list of 100 Must Read Books...I generally have read at least 75-85 (not matter the type of list (scifi, classics, popular, encyclopedias, cartoons, biographies, autobiographies, dog care, cat care, famous writers oeuvre, books of quotations, books of jokes, books of famous people, books of photographs, mysteries and cosies and poetry. Barbara Cartland and Harlequin Romances had their place in my life at one time and so did Women's Weekly). One very important point is....I do not care what anyone else thinks...books are my life, the more the merrier. Nobody else reads enough to impress me. I have read Tolkien, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the Russians. Kafka bored me, I could not finish Proust (though I got half way through the massive trilogy). I have read my share of literary fiction and genre fiction..I have no prejudices. I am not fussy about quality of writing just as I can eat steak today and eat weiners tomorrow..everything is grist for the mill.
On the other hand, if there were a computer programme that you could enter your entire read library into that would run an algorithm and spit out a judgement of who, what etc. about you based on what you read...I would like that. Humans, nope, they are too full of their own inadequacies and prejudices and jealousies and ignorance. You cannot really trust the opinions of other people. What they think of any given politician can be the result..today..of something they read or saw on television or in the news. So few people actually read enough to be entitled to an opinion of other people's reading matter.
As for my mood at the moment, I am relieved. My animals have made me frantic with worry and today I got a break and I am coming up from the pits or down from my flights of dungeon building in the sky.